A quick post on the Etsy blog lead me to discover my new hero, J. Morgan Puett, who closed her New York City clothing boutique in the late 90's and preserved everything in the shop in beeswax...
...and now lives on a surreal rural farm in Northeastern PA near the NY border with her son, Grey Rabbit, a collaboration with Mark Dion, another fave artist obsessed with anthropology and collections, among other things. Mildred's Lane, as the compound is named, is about to launch a live-work intern program and visiting artist program, which looks amazing.
NOT TO MENTION, that finally my mother's house is close to something amazing from the art community, a mere hour and 6 minutes away!
And good lord, dinner party guests are subject to finding an assortment of meats and other foods skewered on antique stick pins stuck into beds of moss.....that's just my kind of ridiculousness.
China Adams's piece, The Official Stitch and Hide Procedure, is another favorite of mine....but a whole different take on dealing with the inventory of life. Here, China determined what of her belongings were officially a burden, and made each piece a shroud that obstructed the identity of the object.
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